”Den här gången utmanar gatan demokratiskt valda”

Ennahda (även transkriberat som al-Nahda, arabiska för "återkomst") är ett moderat islamistparti i Tunisien, lett av Rachid Ghannouchi. Ennahda blev det största i det första demokratiska valet som hölls efter den tunisiska jasminrevolutionen. Ennahda var förbjudet under både republikens grundare Habib Bourguiba och efterföljaren Ben Ali. Valet, som genomfördes söndagen den 23 oktober 2011, gällde 217 platser i ett konstitutionsråd med uppdrag att ta fram en ny grundlag samt utse övergångsregering och president. Ennahda fick nära 39 procent av rösterna och erövrade därmed 89 av platserna i rådet.

The Ennahdha Party (Arabic: حزب حركة النهضة‎ Hizbu Ḥarakatu n-Nahḍah; French: Mouvement Ennahdha), also known as Renaissance Party or simply Ennahdha, is a Muslim democratic political party in Tunisia. Founded as "The Movement of Islamic Tendency" in 1981, Ennahdha was inspired by the Iranian revolution, and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, but has also been called "the mildest and most democratic Islamist party in history". Rached Ghannouchi was the movement's founder and remains its president. In the wake of the 2011 Tunisian revolution and collapse of the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Ennahdha Movement Party was formed, and in the 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, (the first free election in the country's history), won a plurality of 37% of the popular vote and formed a government. Uproar in the traditionally secular country over "Islamization" and assassinations of two secular politicians however, led to the 2013–14 Tunisian political crisis, and the party stepped down following the implementation of a new constitution in January 2014. The party came in second with 27.79% of the vote, in the 2014 Tunisian parliamentary election, forming a coalition government with the largest secular party, but did not offer or endorse a candidate in the November 2014 presidential election.